Subject:manual?

Posted by: beardo1

Date:11/26/1999 10:16:00 AM

I have ver 4.0 that came with SB live... is there an online
manual? I'll try to upgrade to 4.5 but, this normalize
thing.. if you just set it's paramaters and run all tracks
through it and save them... they'll be roughly the same
perceptual volume? I ask this for the sake of the
compilation CDs I am making with the new burner I just got.
getting things to roughly the same level is a pain!!

Thanks

Beardo

Subject:Re: manual?

Reply by: SonicGary

Date:11/29/1999 9:21:00 AM

Ted,

Here's the description of Normalize from the Sound Forge 4.5 help
files:

"To normalize a file means to raise its volume so that the highest
level sample in the file reaches a user defined level. Use this
function to make sure you are fully utilizing the dynamic range
available to you. Sound Forge also allows normalization to RMS power.
This means that a scan will be done on the sound file and it will be
raised in level so its RMS power will be equal to the normalization
level. This is helpful for making multiple files perceptually as loud
as each other.

© 1999 Sonic Foundry, Inc."

So, you can help even out the perceptual volume of multiple files by
normalizing to RMS power.

Sorry, I don't know of anywhere to get a 4.0 manual.

Good luck,

Gary

Ted Dames wrote:
>>I have ver 4.0 that came with SB live... is there an online
>>manual? I'll try to upgrade to 4.5 but, this normalize
>>thing.. if you just set it's paramaters and run all tracks
>>through it and save them... they'll be roughly the same
>>perceptual volume? I ask this for the sake of the
>>compilation CDs I am making with the new burner I just got.
>>getting things to roughly the same level is a pain!!
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Beardo